Milestones: Sep. 26, 1969

Died. Giovanni Cardinal Urbani, 69, Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice,
who in the 1963 papal election was a strong candidate to succeed John
XXIII; of a heart attack; in Venice. Urbani, a moderate-conservative,
took a middle position on many of the issues dividing the College of
Cardinals, and his greatest attribute as a papabile was that he
offended fewest of the church's factions. In the final balloting, the
vote went to a progressive, Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini, who now
reigns as Paul VI.